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FAMILY LARIDAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Laridae mean?
• FAMILY LARIDAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY LARIDAE has 1 sense:
1. gull family: gulls and terns
Familiarity information: FAMILY LARIDAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gull family: gulls and terns
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Synonyms:
family Laridae; Laridae
Hypernyms ("family Laridae" is a kind of...):
bird family (a family of warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings)
Meronyms (members of "family Laridae"):
larid (long-winged web-footed aquatic bird of the gull family)
genus Larus; Larus (type genus of the Laridae)
genus Pagophila; Pagophila; genus Rissa; Rissa (a genus of Laridae)
Sterninae; subfamily Sterninae (terns)
Holonyms ("family Laridae" is a member of...):
Lari; suborder Lari (gulls; terns; jaegers; skimmers)
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